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LANCASTER, Ohio — The former Pickerington Central High School football star accused of raping a
classmate used his phone to videotape the attack in the back seat of her car, the young woman
testified in court yesterday.

Roger L. Lewis Jr., 19, is on trial on two counts of rape in Fairfield County Common Pleas
Court. He is accused of attacking the woman, now 19, during their senior year, including on the day
before the state championship football game.

The Dispatch does not typically identify those who say they are victims of sexual
assault.

Lewis was a standout wide receiver on the Central team and was recruited by Ohio State
University and other schools.

Defense attorney Neil Rosenberg told the jury in his opening statement on Tuesday that the sex
was consensual.

Judge Richard E. Berens allowed Rosenberg to play for the jury a recording, made on a
smartphone, of a conversation between the woman and a friend on Dec. 15, 2011.

She told her friend that Lewis kept pursuing her sexually. They had hung out a couple of times
but, although they had engaged in foreplay, she refused to engage in sexual intercourse with him,
she said.

She said she was upset because, to Lewis, she was just his “booty call and ... I’m not going to
do anything.”

“I feel like he thinks he can have every girl in the world just because he’s Roger ... and he’s
going to Ohio State for football,” she said. Lewis ultimately did not sign with OSU as a football
recruit.

Prosecutors told the jury that the recording did not change that the woman was raped by
Lewis.

Crying at times yesterday, the woman testified that Lewis sexually assaulted her once during her
freshman year and again when she was a sophomore, but she told no one because she was ashamed and
viewed it as her fault.

She said he raped her on a basement couch at a friend’s house on Dec. 2, 2011, before the
championship game, she said. “Not knowing what to do at that time. I thought, ‘It’s your fault
again.’ ”

She told no one because she was embarrassed, the woman said.

On Jan. 6, 2012, she texted Lewis that she needed a book he had swiped from her for a midterm
and he told her to drive to his house, she testified.

He got into her car and made her drive to a partially completed subdivision where he forced her
into the back seat, held her down and raped her, she testified.

He took out his phone and recorded the attack, ordering her to yell and scream and to call him “
Daddy,” she testified.

She was in pain afterward and afraid that the video would end up online.

Jurors were shown the woman’s ripped yoga pants and photos of bruises on her leg and shoulder
taken during a hospital examination.

On Jan. 9, 2012, the woman went to high-school officials, who called police. School officials
and police accompanied her home to tell her parents.